Experiment

Black Hearted Brother – the new trio formed by Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3), Mark Van Hoen (Locust, Seefeel) and Nick Holton (Coley Park, Holton’s Opulent Oog) – release the ‘Got Your Love’ EP on April 1. It will be available from iTunes and all download retailers and streaming services.

Get it from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/bhb-gyl-itunes

The EP’s lead track is an edited version of one of the standout songs on last year’s debut album, ‘Stars Are Our Home’, which always sounded a bit like a lost indie-disco classic, mixing moody Mary Chain melancholia with a thumping electronic beat and squelching sequencers.

“‘Got Your Love’ is really the poppiest song on the album,” agrees the band’s Nick Holton. “It started life on GarageBand, but we added a big floor drum, three big guitars, Mark’s bass synth and Neil’s catchy melody. It became a long song, clocking in at just under eight minutes thanks to Mark’s epic intro and outro. It actually features a massive hammer – and it is really massive – from Brooklyn as the pulsing percussion.”

There is also one brand new track. “‘Don’t Take The Weight’ started life in my large vault of instrumental ditties,” explains Mark Van Hoen. “One of the privileges of the Brethren is the opportunity to cherry pick from this fruitful orchard of sonic delights, and this one did the trick. This time Nick steps up on lead vocals, as he did on several cuts on the album.” The EP is rounded out by two very different remixes of the title track. Chilean electronica artist (now based in Paris) Ricardo Tobar turns in a brilliantly wonky rework which was premiered recently on The Quietus. The other remix is a gloriously downbeat, echo-laden reworking by Ultramarine – the legendary UK techno duo formed by Paul Hammond and Ian Cooper, who released ‘This Time Last Year’, their first album since 1998, last September.

Speaking of bands on the comeback trail, it probably hasn’t escaped your attention that, since Black Hearted Brother first released ‘Stars Are Our Home’ last October, Neil Halstead’s old band Slowdive have reformed and confirmed appearances at festivals around the world later this year. We’d like to think that BHB was a big step towards this being possible. Here are some of the nice things that were said about the album:

“Euphoric electro-shoegaze... It is damn good to hear Neil Halstead busting the effects pedals out of storage and making a dynamic, distorted racket after years of hushed, stripped- back folk music” - The Quietus

“A splendid, freeform racket” - The Times

 “Catchy melodies and infectious, poppy grooves” - Metro

“A super group that doesn’t celebrate itself... come up with an album of mournful pop played as tripped-out psych-gaze” - The Line Of Best Fit

The original version can be found on Black Hearted Brother's debut album 'Stars Are Our Home', which was released in October 2013.

Order LP/CD: http://smarturl.it/bhb-album
Get the album from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/bhb-itunes


Black Hearted Brother - Got Your Love (Ricardo Tobar Remix)

Sense Project on the album The sublime 
composer Robert Logan viola Sarah Sarhandi
2008 US on the label hypnos secret sounds
rare track

Sense Project - Isten

Lightwave Christian Wittmann, Christoph Harbonnier, Paul Haslinger, Serge Leroy
Live in the Choranche Caves (Vercors, France)
2000 label Horizon Music

Lightwave A Mineral Light In The Subterranean Sky

Beef terminal ak Mike Matheson
canada 2002 
label Noise Factory Records

Beef Terminal - The Grey Knowledge

from the compilation Ambient Systems 
Instinct records 1999
very rare track and never upload!

Ambient Systems - Klip - Mirage

ak Dave McSherry, Steve Cobby 
only chill tracks selected 
pork records 1994

Fila Brazilia Old Codes New Chaos "chill-select"

The Fourth Dimensions Of A Nubian Mystic

Hieroglyphic Being - The Fourth Dimension

Can we even call it dubstep any more? Both the consistently awesome Innamind label and maverick Turkish producer Emir Ongun aka Gantz have made their mark though 140bpm half-steppers with lung-crushing subs as standard – but both have constantly chipped away at the conventions of the sound, never ever getting locked into formulae. Now with the launch of Innamind's (even more) experimental offshoot, Blacklist, we're fully through the looking glass. Just one listen to Gantz's elastic tempos, sampladelic mischief and slip-sliding sound palette on this track tells you he's no longer tethered to anything but his own warped imagination. We're going to be watching Blacklist with anticipation (and a little trepidation!)

Gantz "Spooky Action From A Distance" - Boiler Room Debuts

Download available here: http://blrrm.tv/g2dmPF

Gigi Masin Online Radio Festival x Boiler Room Live Set

Not even a month after dropping his entrancing In Stereo session, ex-Emeralds member Steve Hauschildt returns with more ambient hypnosis. This time, it's a track off the soon-to-drop remix EP for composer and artist Christina Vantzou's no. 3 album. Steve's undertaking brings seven minutes of sheer serenity, slowly soaring and regressing throughout its duration. True magic from the pro himself.

3.5 is out on March 18th.

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Christina Vantzou "Stereoscope (Steve Hauschildt Remix)" - Boiler Room Debuts

woob 1194 odonna
from the album 1194 on em:t records 
Paul Frankland ak woob
http://woob.bandcamp.com/album/woob-1194

Woob Odonna

Void, Part 2
Written-By – Paul Frankland ak Woob
Label 
Beeswax (UK) – bees 005 1994

Woob - Void (Part 2)

Paul Frankland alias Woob 
Strange Air from the 1194 album
1994 on em:t records

Experiment

Johan Stastny